Collection items

Allegory of the United States of America

Poster, Illustration

This is a print showing a a woman with the flag of the United States of America in one hand. At the bottom of the image...

'Are we afraid? No!' A propaganda postcard depicti...

Postcard, Illustration Created date: 1915

What is this?  The start of the First World War saw the publication of large amounts of supportive, patriotic ephemera d...

Battle of the Yser, 1914

Postcard, Illustration Created date: 1914

This postcard depicts the cruelty of the Battle of the Yser in October 1914. It shows an elderly farmer with a dead cow,...

Factors of the triumph of justice for the rights a...

Poster, Illustration Created date: 1918

This image, with its portraits of prominent politicians and military figures, appears in many publications produced duri...

French poster 'The voice of the ruins'

Poster, Drawing Created date: 1918

This poster was released in March 1918 in an educational review. It is of particular interest as it expresses a widely s...

How the Door of Peace was Opened

Poster, Illustration

In this poster the Italian Eighth Army celebrate breaking through the enemy front and their occupation of the city of Vi...

Illustration 'Without mercy'

Illustration, Lithograph Created date: 1916

This picture shows Death, depicted as a commander, on the turret of the German submarine that torpedoed the Lusitania. D...

Ligue Souvenez-vous

Postcard, Booklet

This ensemble, which includes a booklet, a postcard and a collection of stamps, was created during the First World War b...

My Mission to London, by the German Prince Lichnow...

Book Created date: 1918

As ambassador to England, Prince Lichnowsky struggled hard to avert war. On his return to Germany, he remained a vocal a...

'Our French allies have a cart full of dead German...

Poster, Lithograph Created date: 1914

When Russia was doing well at the beginning of the First World War there was a trend towards producing politically commi...

Photograph of President Woodrow Wilson addressing...

Image Created date: 2nd April 1917

This photograph, taken on 2 April 1917, shows President Woodrow Wilson addressing a joint session of the United States C...

President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress, 2n...

Pamphlet, Speech

This is a transcription of an address given by President Woodrow Wilson, to a joint session of the United States Congres...

Propaganda flyer dropped during a flight over Vien...

Leaflet Created date: 1918

This leaflet was one of many ‘bombed’ on Vienna by the air squadron of Gabriele d’Annunzio (1863-1938), a poet-soldier o...

Since the night we entered the war, pamphlet publi...

Pamphlet, Photograph, Image

This pamphlet was published by the American Union against Militarism (AUAM) after the end of World War One in 1918. It p...

The Bryce report: Committee on alleged German outr...

Report Created date: 1915

Germany invaded neutral Belgium on 4 August 1914. Their armies killed 6,500 civilians there and in northern France that ...